Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3753, Abel Franklin, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
★ Franklin, Abel
R. 3753
CONTENTS
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37,210
Abe Franklin,
W.H.
June 7. 1832.
Wm Jenkins
3753
Rejected April 3. 1846.

I Abel Franklin a resident of Lyne in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire aged 83 years last October do hereby testify and say that I was born in the Town of Norton in the County of Bristol in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that was my place of residence until some years after the close of the Revolutionary war, I further say that according to my best recollection in the month of September 1778 I volunteered and went with my Father's team and was employed by the authority of some officer of the United States to freight Military Stores Ammunition Provisions from the Town now called New Bedford to Worcester Massachusetts and to Providence R. I. and was engaged on this tour about three months according to my best recollection I do not recollect the name or names of the officers under whom I served on this tour.
I further say that in the month of July or August 1779 (I think) I enlisted for a term of three months under Capt Benja Bates Lieut Ebenezer Titus Ensign Goodwin in Col. Jacob, Regiment Lieut. Col. Richardson - Adjutant White, was stationed on the north end of Rhode Island and assisted in building the fort on Dux Hill. and served the full term of three months according to my enlistment and was discharged and returned home to Norton - I never had a written discharge
Abel Franklin
State of New Hampshire Grafton County ss Lyne January 15 th 1846, Sworn to and subscribed before me
D. G. Churchill Justice of the Peace

I further certify that the witness named Abel Franklin has been personally known to me for about thirty five years last past has held the office of deacon of the Baptist church in said Lynn during my acquaintance with him he always has and does now sustain a good Moral and religious character unimpeached and unimpeachable.
D. C. Churchill Justice of the Peace.
1067.

We the under signed citizens of the Town of Lynn in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire hereby certify that we have been personally acquainted with Deacon Abiel Franklin of said Lynn (who has signed the foregoing affidavit) from our earliest recollection, we consider him a man of the strictest integrity always has sustained and now sustains a good Moral and Religious character There is no person in our acquaintance in whose statement we can with more confidence rely on —
Lynn January 15 th 1846
Latham Coonant age 50 years
Asa Shaw, Town Clerk
Thomas Perkins Notary Public
Abner Latham Justice of the Peace
Francis Hamilton age 38 years
Benj Latham Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
March 27. 1846.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Abiel Franklin is borne upon a Return of Capt Samuel Bishop's Company that marched from Rehoboth on an alarm April 19, 1775. as a private 8 days. — Upon a Muster Roll of Capt Joseph Franklin's Company, in Col Thomas Carpenter's regt that marched from Rehoboth to Rhode Island Dec. 8, 1776. as a Sergeant, 16 days; — Upon a Muster Roll of Capt Nathaniel Carpenter's Company, in Col Thomas Carpenter's regt at Rhode Island as a Sergeant from July 20 1777. 1 Month & 3 days. — Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Benjamin Bates' Company, in Col Abiel Mitchell's regt, as a private, from July 28 1780. 3 Months & 6 days. — The name of Ebenezer

What mentioned in the annexed application is borne upon said Cap. Bates' roll as St., with that of said Franklin.
This Certificate contains all the evidence of service of any one of the Name shown by the Military Records in this office.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Foster, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Ex'r.
OLD WAR.
No. 3753
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1879.
REJECTED
Abel Franklin.
B. O. _____
Service: Revolutionary
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____